Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-10-26
IRELAND AND CANADA.
CHAMBERLAIN EXPLAINS A SPEECH
AND DRAWS CONCLUSIONS.

Some Comments on the Conduct of the
Irish in America-Sudden Death Saves
Dynamiter from Arrest-A Little Di-
version at Cork-BIunt to Expect No
FavOrs-Foreign Notes. u
LONDON, Oct. 26.-An immense meeting
was held at Islington Tuesday night, which
passed a resolution expressing satisfaction
with the governments appointment of Cham
berain as chief of the British fisheries com
mission. Chamberlain, who was present. re-
piled to the resolution, saying that he fully
appreciated the reference of the meeting to
the honorable and important mission upon
which he would embark in few days. He
was aware that his task would be difficult
The question he was TO consider was compli-
Gated and involved enormous interests. Upon
several occasions within the present century
it had gone far toward endangeriug the ami
cable relations between England and the
United States.
Unfortunately, ne said. the difficulties in his
way were not inherent in the nor in
volved in the issue. Chamberlain then
referred to a published telegram, which he
presumed that ali of his hearers had seen,
stating that the Irish in America would do
everything in their power to mar the useful
ness of his niSs.on and. would be able to pre-
vent its success. He did not doubt the fact
that the Irish IN America were ready to use
every effort to prevent a settlement of the
case. Indeed there had never been time
within the last fifty years when the Irish in
America had not been willing to use the
privileges which had been conceded to them by
their adopted country in order to SOW
dissension and promote iil-feeling between
Great Britain and America. More than once
they had shown their readiness to jeopardize
the best interests of their adopted country
in order to avenge real or fancied injuries,
and he was not sufficiently sangu Inc to an
ticipate THAT on the present occasion they
would change their policy. But he was en-
Outraged by the belief that vast majority
of native Americans [cheersl and every Eng
lishman and Scutchman in the United King
dom would regard a fratricidai conflict be-
tween the two countries as a crime of the
deepest dye. They were earnestly DESTROYS
of an amicabe ami honorable settlement and
would not allow it to be jeopardized 10y party
rancor or personal feelings.
As this would he the last time he would
make a public speech before leaving for
America he would take occasion to refer to a
telegram stating that the Toronto Globe had
referred TO some of h is words in Ulster con-
s. ruing them into an insult to all Canadians
There seemed to have been great misappre-
hension Of mis- meaning. What he said was
that there was part of Canada seeking
commercial union with the United States
implying free trade between Canada and the
United States, while at The same time it was
proposed to continue to impose protective
duties upon imports from the mother coun-
try; thus Canada was to give preference in
every article of manufacture to the United
States over Great Britain
He had sand that if the people of Canada
desired an arrangement of tnat kind there
/ was not doubt that they would be able TO
secure IT. He didn't think that body in
this country would attempt to prevent it by
force, but ne had remarked that in that case
all the advantages OF the slender tie still
I binding Canada TO England would disappear,
as far as England was concerned, AMI it
wasn't likely that the people of Great Britain
/ would continue much longer to sustain the
1 obligations and responsibilities of relation
/ ship after all reciprocal benefits had been
/ withdrawn. So he had said that commercial
union of this kind, if II ever came about,
/ would be the first step to and signal of a
| practical separation. That was a matter of
| fact, and he couldn't conceive how any human
/ being with a grain Of reason could discover
/ anything insulting in the statement
/ J. This threw vivid light upon the question
/ of Ireland. Gladstone had quoted Canada as
/ 40 illustration of how might maintain i'm
/ perial control over matters of imperial inter
/ est, while allowing entire Independence on
! all domestic business. The Toronto Globe
said that Canada had reached stage of de-
veiopment where its chpice must prevail over
all considerations That meant that Canada
had a right-and he wouldn't dispute it
whenever her interests demanded it to fol-
low her interests without reference to the
views OF the mother country, although the
subject might he among those expressly
Withdrawn from her coguIzance by the con-
stirution. If ever Ireland obtained prac-
tically independent parliament separation
would be at the discretion Of that parlia-
mtnt